{{rewrite}}{{sources}}'''Gongs''' are evil beings that are obscurely related to [[Orcs]]. They appear in early drafts of ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', and nowhere else.

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{{rewrite}}{{sources}}'''Gongs''' are evil beings that appear in ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'', the earliest version of what would become ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. In his commentary, [[Christopher Tolkien]] remarks that they are obscurely related to [[Orcs]], perhaps as a sub-race of the species. There are no references to Gongs in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s later legendarium and the author appears to have abandoned the concept.

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The [[Gnomish]] word ''sithagong'' is glossed as "dragonfly" (''sitha'' being the word for [[flies|fly]]).<ref>{{PE|11}}, p. 68</ref>